Robert Frederic Bayford OBE KC (24 September 1871 – 5 June 1951) was an English barrister.
He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, rowing in the 1893 University Boat Race and graduating in 1895.
[1] He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple the same year and specialised in probate and divorce cases, as his father had also done.
From 1929 to 1944 he was Recorder of Portsmouth and from 1938 to 1947 he was deputy chairman of the Hampshire Quarter Sessions.
[2] He also received the Special Constabulary Long Service Medal with The Great War 1914–1918 clasp.